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16 bit per channel and on future support for CMYK. Looks like a interesting alternative to TIFF for digital preservation. Sadly, the actual recommended format i
by Zardoz84 11y ago
16 bit per channel and on future support for CMYK. Looks like a interesting alternative to TIFF for digital preservation. Sadly, the actual recommended format is TIFF (so, waste of storage space) -> http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/stillimg.html http://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/stillimg.html
- vanderZwan 11y ago> (so, waste of storage space) To be fair, given the speed at which storage space has grown over the years, it's not really something to worry about in the context of archiving material for future generations (which is very different than being able to quickly download something on the internet now, for example)
- Zardoz84 11y agoWell, when you do service archiving material to the web, the storage cost isn't irrelevant Also, big files means more network traffic between our webservers and the storage servers. Plus this format have other interesting features, like tiled rendering or the progressive download. Sadly, we must handle huge TIFFs and generate jpeg miniatures and tilesets from it, if not serving it online would be very painful. Note: I work on a company dedicated to archiving of libraries, museums and archives...
- vanderZwan 11y agoAh ok, cool! But then you're talking about trying to meet both goals I mentioned at the same time ;) But I guess you handle it similar to how Archive.org does it, with a large TIFF as a poorly compressed but lossless "base case" and other compression formats for the web?